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[ChrisOrmie]

Ho ho ho, merry Christmas everyone and welcome to Finland!

For our FM2012 festive Tour we've decided to throw you into the third division of Finnish football where you'll take over as manager of FC Santa Claus!

Your goal is to take this small club and flourish amid the cruel winter backdrop, rising through the leagues and adding some trophies to the cabinet! One small thing to remember is that this is one of the few times you will hope not to see the words 'Santa' and 'Sack' in the same sentence. Good luck!

FC Santa Claus

FC Santa Claus (known primarily as Santa) is a football club from Rovaniemi, Finland. The club was formed in 1993 following the amalgamation of Rovaniemen Reipas and Rovaniemen Lappi football clubs. Home matches are played at the Saarenkylän tekonurmi or Susivoudin kenttä in Rovaniemi. FC Santa Claus won its group in the Kakkonen C division, but lost the promotion play-off final to HIFK and failed to gain promotion to the Ykkonen league in 2010.
Santa have never gained promotion to the top two divisions in Finland, spending half their short history in the third and fourth divisions respectively. With low cash reserves, poor facilities and a midtable squad, this could be a tough challenge. However the chance to forge new history and bring a little festive cheer to the world of football is one that shouldn't be passed up!

Kakkonen C
The name literally means 'Number Two' in Finnish and is the third tier of football in the country, behind the Veikkausliiga (Premier) and Ykkonen (First) divisions. The Kakkonen is divided to three groups of 14 clubs. A club plays each of the others in the same group twice, once at their home stadium and once at that of their opponents. Clubs gain three points for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss. The group winners may win promotion to Ykkönen while three bottom clubs of each group and weakest 11th ranked club will be relegated to Kolmonen.

CHALLENGE DYNAMICS

This challenge will last for three years, upon completing your third season in Finland

(1st November 2013), you can no longer collect points for this destination.

You must start set your manager experience as "Automatic" and play in a new save from December 2010, using this database to unlock the third tier of Finnish football: here (right click to 'save as').

(Those having problems can try this link instead: http://www.sendspace.com/file/z4y1qz).

You have until the midnight of 30th December 2011 to submit your screenshots in this thread, and accumulate as many points as you can within the confines of a maximum of 3 seasons in the game.

You may not manage any other teams, or use other programs to aid you in this challenge

HOW TO SCORE POINTS

Submit screenshots via reply within this thread of your progress.

Unclear or doctored screenshots will not be rewarded with points.

Veikkausliiga

Relegated: -10 points

12th-9th: 0 points

8th: 2 points

7th: 3 points

6th: 4 points

5th: 5points

4th: 8 points

3rd: 10 points

2nd: 15 points

1st: 25 points

Ykkönen

Relegated: -10 points

13th-9th: 0 points

8th: 2 points

7th: 3 points

6th: 4 points

5th: 5points

4th: 8 points

3rd: 10 points

2nd: 15 points

1st: 25 points

Promoted: +10 points

Kakkonen

Relegated: -10 points

14th-9th: 0 points

8th: 2 points

7th: 3 points

6th: 4 points

5th: 5points

4th: 8 points

3rd: 10 points

2nd: 15 points

1st: 25 points

Promoted: +10 points

Suomen Cup

Losing Quarter Finalist: 2 points

Losing Semi Finalist: 5 points

Losing Finalist: 10 points

Winners: 15 points

Veikkausliiga Liigacup

Losing Quarter Finalist: 2 points

Losing Semi Finalist: 5 points

Losing Finalist: 10 points

Winners: 15 points.

Champions League

Fail to Qualify for group stages: 0 points

Group Stage Exit: 2 points

Second Round Exit: 5 points

Losing Quarter Finalists: 10 points

Losing Semi Finalists: 15 points

Losing Finalist: 20 points

Winner: 30 points

Europa League

Group Stage Exit: 0 points

Second Round Exit: 3 points

Losing Quarter Finalists: 8 points

Losing Semi Finalists: 10 points

Losing Finalist: 15 points

Winner: 25 points

RIVALRIES

(Competitive Fixtures Only)

Beat RoPS: 3 points

POINT DEDUCTIONS

Sacked: -25 points (and the challenge is over)

LOGOS

Veikkausliiga

Ykkonen

Kakkonen

[Pompey_Dan]

Haha! Fantastically topical choice Ormie, well played

Might just have to give this a go.

[ChrisOrmie]

Pompey_Dan, on 09 December 2011 - 11:52 PM, said:

Haha! Fantastically topical choice Ormie, well played

Might just have to give this a go.

Cheers mate, Niniev had the idea for the team, Jack worked on the database and I wrote the threads. Seemed like a good choice for December and hopefully we'll see a good bit of success for Santa!

[localhero]

Sweet baby. I expect to see plenty of people enter and Finnish this leg.

[Pompey_Dan]

ChrisOrmie, on 09 December 2011 - 11:59 PM, said:

Cheers mate, Niniev had the idea for the team, Jack worked on the database and I wrote the threads. Seemed like a good choice for December and hopefully we'll see a good bit of success for Santa!

Let's just hope Santa doesn't give me the sack...

[FD™]

FC Santa Claus

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For those who would like a facepack for the team

[ChrisOrmie]

For those who are struggling to find out where to put the Finland.xml file (database), navigate to your 'Football Manager 2012' folder (under your 'Sports Interactive' folder, which can be found in your documents folder) and create a new folder called 'Editor Data'. Simply put the file in there and when creating a new game you'll see an option to add/remove editor files on the database select screen. Make sure Finland is the only one ticked and you'll be able to play in the third tier of their league system for this Tour!

FD™, on 10 December 2011 - 12:02 AM, said:

For those who would like a facepack for the team

Cheers FD! Nice to see the elves

Pompey_Dan, on 10 December 2011 - 12:01 AM, said:

Let's just hope Santa doesn't give me the sack...

Indeed, better hire a good team of Elves to help you run things smoothly eh?

[Pompey_Dan]

ChrisOrmie, on 10 December 2011 - 12:08 AM, said:

Indeed, better hire a good team of Elves to help you run things smoothly eh?

Funnily enough I was about to say that the team doesn't look in the best of elf - they've got snow chance really, I wouldn't expect them to sleigh any opponents sometime soon... (that's it I promise!)

[JackHammer]

So many bad puns...

Think I might do the tour this time, my other games are all going badly

[dichrott]

i got promoted but now struggling really hard in Ykkonen.
hope i dont get sacked.

[dichrott]

finished without getting sacked

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Kakkonen - (25+10=35 points)

11 - winner - 25 points

Spoiler

11 - promoted - 10 points

Spoiler

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Ykkönen - (10+8=18 points)

12 - 3rd - 10 points

Spoiler

13 - 4th - 8 points

Spoiler

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Cup - (0 points)

sucked at cup games

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Rivalries - (0 points)

RoPS - 0 games - 0 points
couldnt play a game against them

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Challenge Total: 53 points

Kakkonen - 35 points
Ykkönen - 18 points
Cup - 0 points
Rivalries - 0 points

[Zabier]

I'm going to give this a go because I've been looking to start a new game. I doubt I'll do the points but I'll keep you updated about my progress because I'm more than likely going to do badly!

[ChrisOrmie]

I don't believe it - I didn't last more than three months without getting sacked! Won the opening six games, lost two and got booted out!

Thought it was a bug or something so tried it again and lasted four months, apparently I lost the dressing room that time.

TOTAL: -25

[JackHammer]

YOU SUCK!
I'm into the second season, still in the Kakkonen but looking very good for promotion

[localhero]

JackHammer, on 28 December 2011 - 10:31 AM, said:

YOU SUCK!
I'm into the second season, still in the Kakkonen but looking very good for promotion

Bit like West Ham then eh?

[Manno]

Is there a deadline for this, as I'd like to give it a try!

[ChrisOrmie]

Manno, on 28 December 2011 - 06:05 PM, said:

Is there a deadline for this, as I'd like to give it a try!

Rolling monthly challenges and it's supposed to end at midnight of the 30th... but I might extend that a little while as I know people are still playing this. The new Tour won't be delayed anyway, that's going up around the 5th of Jan.

[Manno]

Cheers I'll wait for the next one as I won't finish it by then

[douts88]

Leauge:

Season 1 - 9th 0pts (:

Spoiler

Season 2 - 2nd 15pts

Spoiler

Season 3 - 8th 2pts:

Spoiler

Cup 0pts - never made it past 7th round.

Rivalries  0pts- never played in competitive game (did beat them 4-1 in friendly tho)

Challenge total: 17pts. I Suck.

[ChrisOrmie]

Haha, seems quite a few people struggled with our festive challenge! I know Jack's done quite well - might even be the winner if he can get screenshots in on time!

Zabier and Jackhammer... where are your points?!